Bank of North America v. Rindge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, seeking to hold the defendant responsible on a judgment recovered in Kansas against the Haddam State Bank, a Kansas corporation, in which the defendant was a stockholder. The Superior Court sustained a demurrer filed by the defendant, on the ground that the declaration did not set forth a legal cause of action; and the plaintiff appealed to this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The plaintiff is a corporation of the State of New York. The defendant is a resident of California, who owned fifty shares of stock in the Haddam State Bank, a corporation of Kansas. The plaintiff recovered judgment in Kansas for $5,343 and costs against the Haddam State Bank, and took out execution thereon, but could find no property of the bank whereon to levy, and so the execution was returned unsatisfied. No steps were taken in Kansas to charge the defendant as a stockholder in the bank, but, he being found in Massachusetts, the plaintiff brings this action against him here, seeking to…
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